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Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar (“round”); compare Chinese 歸 (OC *klul, “to return; to come back”). Resultative: སྐོར (skor).
Pronunciation
Verb
འཁོར • ('khor) (nominal form འཁོར་བ)
- (intransitive) to turn round, to rotate, to revolve, to spin, to go around, to elapse (of time)
- (intransitive) to gather, to be formed, to be perfected
Conjugation
Conjugation of འཁོར (Classical Tibetan)
| Tense/Mood
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Form
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Wylie
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| Present
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འཁོར |
'khor
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| Future
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འཁོར |
'khor
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| Past
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འཁོར |
'khor
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| Imperative
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འཁོར |
'khor
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Conjugation of འཁོར (Old Tibetan)
| Tense/Mood
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Form
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Wylie
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| Present
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འཁོརད |
'khord
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| Future
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འཁོར |
'khor
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| Past
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འཁོརད |
'khord
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| Imperative
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འཁོརད |
'khord
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Noun
འཁོར • ('khor)
- circle, sphere, disc, wheel, cycle
- retinue, followers, entourage, attendants
- surroundings, vicinity, nearby area
- vehicle, means of transport
Derived terms
- ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར་འཁོར (kha lo sgyur 'khor, “steering wheel”)
- ཆོས་འཁོར (chos 'khor, “wheel of life”)
- དུས་འཁོར (dus 'khor, “Kalachakra; wheel of time”)
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར (dkyil 'khor, “mandala”)
- དཀྲུག་འཁོར (dkrug 'khor, “lathe”)
- མ་ནི་ཆོས་འཁོར (ma ni chos 'khor, “prayer wheel”)
- མེ་འཁོར (me 'khor, “train”)
- འཁྲུ་འཁོར ('khru 'khor, “washing machine”)
- འཁོར་ལོ ('khor lo, “wheel, vehicle”)
- འཁོར་ཤུར་ལྷམ་གོག ('khor shur lham gog, “rollerskates”)
- འཕྲུལ་འཁོར ('phrul 'khor, “machine”)
- འབངས་འཁོར ('bangs 'khor, “servant”)
- རྐང་འཁོར (rkang 'khor, “bicycle”)
- རླུང་འཁོར (rlung 'khor, “propeller”)
References
- “འཁོར” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.